12 Dislocation Quotes for You to Enjoy

People say free trade causes dislocation. In actual fact, it's the lowering of trade barriers that causes the dislocation. P. J. O'Rourke

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We're all interconnected. For example, a simple lack of fresh water can lead to population dislocation, which can lead to political radicalization, which can lead to great pressure on the states that receive refugees because of a migrating population. Harrison Ford

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Films are big hits when they touch a lot of people. Things are not funny in a vacuum, they're funny because we respond to some personal dislocation, some embarrassment, some humiliation, some pain we've suffered, or some desire we have. Harold Ramis

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Duncan Jones has skills; he's an architect of emotional dislocation. Elvis Mitchell

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I have written about cultural dislocation, and I understand the corrosive effect of diminished expectations. Richard Cohen

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If you are born in 1564, your dislocation from your parents' experience is very profound. You are the first generation who will have had all your religious experience in English, the first to have a countryman circumnavigate the globe. All the power and economic structures of the world are changing around you. Neil MacGregor

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I think what we have to do is figure out how to make sure we get the benefits of improved technology and yet cope with the dislocation that it will inevitably produce in certain industries. Wilbur Ross

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As a reader, I appreciate a world that feels unsettled and also visceral, inhabitable, so that's a quality I try and bring to my own work. In this way, dislocation and precision make total sense to me as a unit. Laura van den Berg

I don't like the dislocation of being away for months at a time. It's not conducive to having a life. Bob Mould

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Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say they're saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest. Harry Mathews

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I think it's no coincidence that people who are good at writing far-out fiction are also good at meta-fiction. Think of all the best Phillip K. Dick stories, where you experience a sort of dislocation, and suddenly what you think you've been reading is, in fact, something else entirely. Paul Park

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